Feminism, Corruption, Privacy, Remix Here's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (sampled in @Beyonce's "Flawless") offering the truth: we should all be feminists. http://t.co/uZekGPQEcL— anildash (@anildash) December 13, 2013 Here's documentation for PST, the format...
Apartheid, Impostors, Toto, Sending, Collection, Biden Here's @jbouie on how conservative desire to keep doing business in South Africa would have failed to undo Apartheid: http://t.co/HOkHYQM9kN— anildash (@anildash) December 11, 2013 Here's the rarest thing: A tech conference talk...
Embrace, Fellowship, Charity, Keyboards, Questlove, Here's evidence of Microsoft returning to its "Import, Embrace & Extend" roots in consumer apps, with Outlook: http://t.co/PZv3wuTdo3— anildash (@anildash) December 12, 2013 Here's an amazing fellowship opportunity, helping...
Smarter, Albums, Pimp, Upworthy Here's @pomeranian99's "Smarter Than You Think", offering perspective on tech while justifying our time spent online: http://t.co/R9Fkb1wJY5— anildash (@anildash) December 10, 2013 Here's [@sfj](https://twitter.com/sfj)'s...
Medium, Beyoncé, Surveillance, Newt Here's "What I'm Reading on Medium", a @medium collection that's exactly what it sounds like. You may want to follow! http://t.co/9D7VbNGPIT— anildash (@anildash) December 9, 2013 Here's Random Beyoncé. It offers a random...
Derby, Mario, Mike, Feed, Gravity Here's a fun registry of derby names that lets you see if your roller derby name is unique: http://t.co/ZU0TAxNN4O— anildash (@anildash) December 6, 2013 Here's a charming Super Mario-style map of the NYC subway (prints available):...
3D, Audiences, Drupal, Tumblrs, Structure Here's an extraordinary first-person from [@BurningNorth](https://twitter.com/BurningNorth) about seeing 3D for the first time, thanks to Nintendo: [http://t.co/8dBN1oLD9u](http://t.co/8dBN1oLD9u)— anildash (@anildash) December 5, 2013 Here's...
Call and Response Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politics at Fast Company, by the always-genius Gina Trapani. A clear contrast between Mozilla and...
Call and Response As ever, the best thing about blogging is the conversations it kicks off. Some nice responses to recent posts here and around the web: In a follow-up to Gourmet Live and Rewarding Experiences, Mathew Ingram of GigaOm ruminated a bit about magazine...
Upgrades Some great responses to, and extensions of, the things I’ve been writing about lately In response to Forking Is A Feature, Rafe Colburn offers up The cultural implications of forking, rightly pointing out, “Linus Torvalds didn’t set out to change...
Hospitality and Process There are some links I just keep finding myself sending around to friends and coworkers. Hmm, isn’t that what a blog is for? From back in April, a look at the service guidelines for staff at Momofuku offshoot M� P�che. Though the Eater commenters...
Here's What's Up When there’s no time for original content, we link! These are the places I’ve popped up lately, or things that caught my eye: We published our initial results from the Grand Challenges initiative over on the Expert Labs blog, including a full data...
Little Guys Care One of the nice things about independent web entrepreneurs is that they (we?) can draw contrasts against those who are giant publicly-traded faceless corporations, either pointedly or with tongue in cheek. Some of the best recent items in this...
The Internet Is Where The Truth Is The exact thing you are looking for is out there on the Internet, if you just know where to look. So here are some hints. Making the connection between Girl Talk and DJ Drama, Congressman Mike Doyle (Pittsburgh represent!) breaks down remix culture...
Well-Spoken Links Okay, these are the links you should be reading on the Internet today. A smart diagram is the new clever writing: LeisureArts charts out my favorite snowclone. I covered similar topics before in The Story of America and Do you love words? The...
Places to Go These are the things you ought to look at today: Real Empires Ship. I could link to Paul Ford’s Ftrain every day and never tire of it. The Romans would have loved Steve Jobs. I can easily see him in a turtleneck in the middle of an ampitheater,...
Links and Stuff Now, I will outline a series of hypertext links, offer brief descriptions of the content to be found at those sites, explain why you might want to visit, and then wait patiently while you do so. Startup Review. It’s a new blog, but shows promise...
More Linking, Less Thinking I’ve been ruminating about radio a lot lately (more on that later), but one of the most pleasant radio discoveries of late has been XM Radio’s 80s and 90s stations, as well as their “20 on 20” pop hits station. Imagine my delight when I found that...
This is what you should read on the web So maybe Gracenote (formerly CDDB) isn’t evil after all? I love anything that challenges the conventional wisdom, especially when someone’s gotten a bad rap. Good reporting, Eliot Van Buskirk! I’d been accepting the received wisdom about this...
Sexy: Links. Unsexy: Schadenfreude “Two of the most financially successful Web 2.0 personalities … are rooting for the financial failure of their competitors.” Hmm. I tend to root for the success of our company’s competitiors, because I want the entire industry to be healthy, I think...
Alright, Kids. You want links? You got links. Seth Stevenson defends the word “sucks” in Slate. This seems relevant to me because my keynote at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference last week was callled Trying Not To Suck and because I used to get in trouble with...
Love and Hate Links Divebars. Jukeboxes. Allen Iverson. Beerball. Super Mario Kart. NetFlix. LiveFuckingJournal. The way my girl looks in that skirt. Everything great about America, and everything great about every place else, all in one post. I love great writing on...